Siskel & Ebert Classics - 500th Episode Anniversary Special (1989)
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- My cap from WBZ TV 4 Boston with original commercials. Special hour-long syndicated episode of Siskel & Ebert recorded live at Disney World's Disney MGM Studios in Orlando. Lots of great outtakes and audience Q&A sections.
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Think about this.....These two movie nerds became more important and popular than the movie and actor they were talking about. Priceless. Thanks for the wonderful memories as a child watching every week for a sneak peek at the movie i was wanting to see.
I love how the thumbnail is from an Oceanspray commercial lol
I'm 20 minutes in and I'm LOVING the fact that this is basically an hour long roast between the two! This is peak Siskel and Ebert right here.
What a time capsule of history, Siskel, Ebert and Carson.
I knew they were around a long time but 500th anniversary special?! 500 years is quite a long time 😂
Gene's beloved Nortown Theatre was demolished in 2007. Roger's Princess Theatre in Urbana closed in 1994 and is now an art gallery.
Those theaters were part of the technology needed to view films.
Now I view most films on a smartphone screen.
These are great, Siskel and Ebert ruled and I especially enjoy the more straightforward and normal advertisements in between, nice touch as always.
I know right I hate how literally every single advertisement has to try and be comedic these days
I love them, I truly do. They will always be missed, but always remembered. Thank you for posting these vids.
Agreed, they were a fantastic duo. What I enjoy most about these old shows is being able to watch their older 1970s and 1980s stuff.
I really miss watching thier show. Brings back memories of my adolescens
i miss these guys. that episode about widescreen on video really changed my mind
Whatever chemistry is these guys definitely had it. One of the greatest teams in the history of television.
Very popular duo. Miss them. 😢
OMG A time capsule, like no other. A great era, the 80s was drawing to a close. Much love, and thank you for sharing. I will listen to my own time capsule --my 80s mp3 collection tomorrow.
I can't believe I clicked on this to see an oceanspray commercial.
I saw an ad for Dead Poet's Society, so that means that this aired in 1989. Earlier, they were talking about how there should be a new rating that would fit between R and X, citing that it's not fair to have to cut scenes from a movie to garner an R rating, if it wasn't a porn. They suggested A, for Adults. One year later, the NC-17 rating was introduced, which was a rating that fit between R and X. Looks like the MPAA actually listened to Siskel and Ebert.
Although NC-17 was still the kiss of death for a theatrical release, because the highest grossing NC-17 movie in 33 years only grossed a little over 65 million. After that, it's steep drop off, after steep drop off. The second highest grossing NC-17 movie earned 45 million, then 40, then 37. By the time you get to the 10th highest grossing movie, it only earned 20 million. I've only seen one NC-17 movie on the top 40 list, which was this year's Infinity Pool, and I had no idea it was NC-17. I'm not even sure if it was given a theatrical release. It's ranked 16th, and only earned a little over 5 million.
Widescreen is now everything in regular homes!
When I lived in Milwaukee, I would visit my Grandma at her little retirement complex... she would watch EVERYTHING that was on Turner Classic Movies -- Roger kind of explains why... it was television to her before there was television... Roger talks about how he would see 4 movies on a Saturday, that was my Gma... EVERY movie was worth watching
What a precious memory, this is exactly why I love Cary Grant today, because I watched his films growing up with my grandmother.
@@booknooky9436 my grandma got a special kick out of what she called "The Road Pictures" with Hope and Crosby from the '40s, "Oh those two were a hoot" she would say lol
Easy Rider. An Awesome movie. So was Five Easy Pieces. Mean Streets is one of my all-time favorite movies
Can't believe how short those commercial breaks are.
Siskel with the most powerful mustache known the humanity.
I remember this!
Movies were so much better then; and critics definitely better then. Miss these guys.
Now Cool Breeze you're full of hot air. The 20 Avengers movies have eclipsed anything from Hollywood in the 20th Century.
@@booknooky9436 I myself was deeply moved by Ant man and the wasp 7.
I think it’s half true. Many critics and film historians have considered the 1980s to be the worst decade in the history of American cinema and these guys clearly said it in this video. They began their jobs at the beginning of the Hollywood Renaissance, the late 60s-70s period when a new generation of directors were given creative freedom. But after Jaws and Star Wars created an era of high concept amusement park moviemaking, directors have diminished power and the major studios have regained control after Heaven’s Gate tanked. What’s more, the independent film boom they would later embrace in the 90s was in its early stages, and foreign films they loved were given very limited distribution in North America, which indicates that directors from other countries have struggled to get their films imported and the funding they needed.
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Thanks for uploading, that was great.
A lot of people probably don’t remember Their reviews on sneak previews were so much longer compared to at the movies and then Siskel and Ebert. PBS didn’t have commercials which let them do more in-depth reviews
Fantastic program that gives some differernt perspectives on these guys from their typical reviews. Thanks for showing it.
Thank you.....
The one sad thing about this special is they had only been doing the Siskel and Ebert show for three years so most of their historic clips were from Sneak
Previews and At the Movies which they probably didn't get have that many rights too. I think when Gene Siskel died they gave Ebert more access to vintage clips.
100%. Sneak Previews I thought personally was when they were at their best.
@@cactusjackNV They were a lot more arrogant on Siskel & Ebert compared to Sneak Previews or At the Movies.
Thank you! Thank you! I never saw this and didn't even know it happened. And getting the commercials in was perfect. Thank you!
They certainly know how to create an appealing tension to keep people watching...thumbs up from me!
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That special was magnificent.
Thank you for all your posts. you're doing immesurable good!
Oh yes, and their arguments that DIDN'T wind up in the show are even more real. You can find them on UA-cam.
I love how the announcer messes up and calls it the "500th Anniversary Special" like they got to review Shakespeare at the Globe Theater...
Thank you for keeping the commercials! 🤣
That was such a wonderful show. I never knew it existed either but I do see now the dedicated Siskel and Ebert site has a copy. I don't know if movies have gotten worse but TV has. Now it's all about slickness, glitz and pandering to a narrow segment of the audience. The intellectual component that challenged people to think outside of their comfort zone is gone. Only questionable thing about the show is that despite S&E championing letterbox films, the clips they show, even of old movies, are panned and scanned.
"Once young directors wanted to make the greatest American movie, now young directors want to make the biggest American hit"...Siskel couldn't of put it better. That's everything wrong with the industry today.
Exactly! This is why they considered the 80s to be the worst era for Hollywood. The New Hollywood period (which made their professional rivalry such a delight) died out and the summer blockbusters were in.
My favorite Scorsese: The King of Comedy
My favorite Coppola: The Conversation
Young Gene with his stache looks like Jim Croce
My first movie ever was "Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo"... who can forget the first time you smell that overpowering smell of popcorn on the roaster?? My first "adult" movie I saw at 8 when I slept at a buddy's house and his dad dragged us to the masterpiece "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" by saying it was "like Star Wars" lol... i was baffled by the movie, now I know how great it was
Interesting thumbnail. I made that same face passing a kidney stone 6 months ago. Also, RIP Siskel & Ebert.
37:15 A year later in 1990 NC-17 was instituted.
Wishes granted gentlemen.
It didn’t really work. Most theaters refused to carry NC 17 movies, and the studios refuse to sell them.
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Amazing yet sad how Gene had incredible foresight into the future of Cinema.
Wow...without the internet and cell phones...he already knew
holyshit. marvel movies.... would they be considered less? idk
Thanks for sharing. By the commercials I think it was June 1989 when it aired.
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The theme song was so cool and very great!
That Canada Dry commercial sounds like it could be a vapor wave song! R.I.P. vapor wave songs...
Why RIP?
God I miss these guys!! They taught me to have a critical mind, and they introduced me to movies I would never have paid any attention to... where are their successors?? And don't say "Rottentomatoes", it misses the point -- their entertaining delivery BROUGHT me to movies in a way skimming through rottentomatoes can never do! Why can't anyone see that??
Could not agree more. Well said.
Touche......
Man, I so miss these guys. The movies they disagreed on were fun to watch them review, because I also have favorite movies that the critics panned. Weird how they both died from head diseases (tumor, cancer).
Kind of want a Klondike bar 😸
So---- Zoomers!
What do S& E and the films they reviewed mean to you, if anything?
I mark my passage into adulthood in 1968, when I graduated from high school. Forty years before that date, "talkies" had barely gotten started, and I've viewed hardly any silent pictures in my life. But I often viewed pictures made in the 1930s on television in the 1950s and 1960s.
American movies are an important part of my cultural heritage.
The ads at the end are hair thinner and candy, brilliant
Thank them for wide screen tvs too.
"The camera took the point of view of the killer and invited us to stalk the intended victim."
Yes, and certainly the movie Halloween - for which Siskel & Ebert both had such high praise - does not begin with a 5-minute sequence which is ENTIRELY from the killer's point of view...
Being backwards? What's that?
"Boredom with Benji running." I can't hear that and not laugh.
Live '80s cheesefest music, what a treat!
- One of their first times on TV and our Rog brought his A game with the threads! .....Ahhh, the early '70s! ❤ 4:30
1989 is peak of human history
Seems like Roger combined Young Mr Lincoln and Abe Lincoln in Illinois two separate films into one film in his mind.
Bobby McFerrin getting a lot of play out of this one!
Gene's mustash!
I still can't tell them apart to this day.
I'm surprised they were able to find a few clips of them arguing when Roger disliked a film that Gene liked. I watched this show back when it was on TV and I've seen tons of the videos online and I'm telling you, for every one time Gene liked something that Roger didn't, there were about 100 of the other way around. lol.
Wow! I saw a few movies there when my dad was stationed at Chanute AFB in Rantoul, IL, just 14 miles north of Champaign/Urbana. Years later, When I joined the USAF, I was back at Chanute. My retired dad came to visit me and we had dinner/movie in this very theater. This was 1987 and for the love of God, I can see the movie but, I can't remember the title!!!!! The comedy/musical.....with the singing, Alien plant! Steve Martin played the dentist?! Bill Murray was the masochistic patient????!!!! Help me out folks????
Little Shop of Horrors!
how many episodes are there for Siskel and Ebert episodes as a whole from the first episode of them reviewing movies till the death of Siskel?
its june 2022 and 4am
who needs sleep i need more videos
I'm guessing Cannonball Run 3 hadn't come out yet
One thing I’ve noticed watching heaps of Siskel and Ebert is how unshackled they were by political and social bias, they really called it like they saw it. Also they both clearly had a lot of respect for women and called out shameless and needless exploitation for what it was, trash shock value. Love these guys
Adverts haven't changed.
Siskel loved talking about Dumbo as a kid. I've seen videos where he said he went to see it 8 weeks in a row, next it was 9 and in this video 10. If he was alive today I wonder if Dumbo would still be running every Saturday in his hometown?
In 1989 Ebert and Siskel spent together already more than 10 years in TV. Too many movies, reviews, disagreements, statements; to watch their early days is quite strange, they talked really softly and had that impossible 70s look
Angel Heart is a very scary movie.
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They came out with 500 episodes just by 1989?
Yes!
He was talking about shorter attention span in 1989 imagine if he was alive now what would he think ...
12:10 that voice omgg
I never disagreed with these two. (When the agreed.)
9:47 Films for Gene to be wrong about.
at 4:30 root beer rag!
Raging Bull >>>>>Apocalypse Now
You must be on crack
AN is a great film but it collapses during it's final act. I also find Brando's performance to be overrated. He was half asleep delivering lines that an angry college freshman wrote.
@@ricardocantoral7672 I agree. I liked AP but also find it overrated, and yeah Brando is only in that film for his name.
@@sonnyblack0870 he had that type of power, look at the huge money he got for such little time in Superman.
@@christianlorre Yeah, probably why he was such a pompous prick.
They were right about Streep and Nicholson.
Ooohhh! Nicholson in China Town and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
I will always remember how Nicholson's grin faded when Nurse Ratchet said" If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication ORALLY, I'm sure we can find another way to give it to him."
"But he wont like it."
0:33 I had almost forgotten about Robin Leach! where does the time go?
What history in cinema in general amazing episode please some stream giant get the right to Siskel and Ebert shows smh 1000 eps share with world who these great men were
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Wait they called this the 500th episode but he clearly says “this is about our 500th.” Aww man 😂 I don’t know if I just watched the 498th the 500th the 506th what is going on everything I know is a lie 😂
Too bad we don't have a Syskel & Ebert show reviewing the politics of the day. Done by the right people, it would be a real asset to humanity.
I can imagine a show----
"January 6th ---Insurrection or Media Hysteria?"
"Climate Change ---- Existential threat to HUMANITY or Climate Hysteria?"
That Canada Dry commercial was terrible.
Is that Tobey Maguire playing Siskel? 22:53
37:37 Boy am I glad Siskel isn't here to see what the movie business has become. If he thought that small and medium movies were being forced out by blockbusters in 1989...
That’s why many critics have considered the 1980s to be the worst decade in the history of American movies and Siskel and Ebert agreed. They embraced the 90s independent film boom before Siskel died, and a decade before his death in 2013, Ebert gave thumbs up to a wide variety of movies. Starting with the 90s indie boom, movies have aligned to S&E’s preferences.
Sure, a lot of the artistic integrity was taken out of filmmaking many years ago. But the studios are in the business of making money, not the best quality of storytelling. As the 70s and 80s rolled around and more gore, nudity, language (my life’s blood) really got them pissed off. Imagine them trying to work these days. LMAO.
Audience member: What’s your least favorite movie?
Siskel: Cannonball Run II
Ebert: Cannonball Run I, because it inspired a sequel
Burt Reynolds:
I thought Speed Zone (another ATROCIOUSLY unfunny movie) was the sequel to CR II?
These guys would quit if they had to review today's movies.
You should really change the thumbnail...
Wow really?!! They blame Jaws & Star Wars for the decline in quality film making?!!! :O
They're just talking about how Hollywood shifted from the New Hollywood era to the rise of the summer blockbusters.
@@patrickshields5251 Wonder how they would feel about Hollywood today with superhero movies dominating the box office?
@@Winnipegger The same as in this video.
It's great you have contact with the dead! :P
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@@Winnipegger One thing, I actually didn't. It's just a guess.
I never got why Ebes like Apocalypse Now so much--yes it has some amazing great moments...but it also has awful ones!...
I don't understand the acclaim of Brando's performance. His dialogue was ham handed and he delivered his lines with the enthusiasm of a McDonald's cashier talking to a customer.
You guys have class
I never liked Raging Bull. I’ve watched it repeatedly and I still feel the same. My opinion never changes. However, Apocalypse Now is one of the all time greats.
😆 only 1 of the best films ever
Siskel was great. Ebert meh